Survival Three Kingdoms

Chapter 795 Burning Xiakou
On the second day of junior high school, Gan Ning, Tai Shixiang, and Sun Xing set off for Xiakou from three places, and Tai Shixiang, who was the closest, was the first to bear the brunt.

Zhou Cang made furniture in Liaodong, which drove the wood industry to flourish, and various new tools continued to emerge.Tai Shixiang discovered the benefits and brought the most advanced wood chisel tool: hand drill.

The modified hand drill was obviously not suitable for carpentry, more like a large bottle opener.The hard wood is the shell, the two sections are empty, and a similar drill bit is inserted in the middle, and it is completely dependent on manpower without the aid of springs.It is easy to carry, the sound is very small is the advantage, and the drill bit is small and the quality is poor.

Nearly two thousand water ghosts dived into the water that night, with four or five hand drills tied to their waists, felt the Wei army's fleet spread out in the night, stuck the hard wood on the bottom of the boat and twisted the handle desperately.The bottom of the boat was extremely thick and hard, and the drill bit snapped after a few clicks. The water ghost threw away the damaged hand drill and replaced it with another one. When a hole was drilled, at least three drill bits and four gasses were exchanged.

Tossing in the middle of the night, almost all Wei Jun's big ships had holes, only empty.It is precisely because the drilled hole is small and the water is poured slowly that Wei Jun didn't notice it at all.

In the early morning of the third day of junior high school, when the sun was just emerging, Tai Shixiang ordered an attack.Hundreds of large ships sailed towards Cao's army. Wenpin's eldest son Wen Dai and adopted son Wenxiu saw that there were not many Han army ships, so they tried to encircle the Han army by taking advantage of the downstream.

Arrows flew randomly on the river, and the warships on both sides gradually approached. The bow of the Han army raised the pole high, and the Wei army hurriedly turned to avoid the pole. They went downstream and did not feel anything unusual. Only then did they realize that the boat was heavy. Turning was more than twice as slow as before, most of the boats were hit hard by the racket before they could dodge the pole, and they were either scattered or overturned.

Wen Dai was shocked, and carefully checked the warships, and found that the draft of all the large ships had dropped by nearly two inches. He immediately sent a signal to order the ships to check, and soon the soldiers came to report that their boats were leaking, and the bottom warehouse was knee-high.

The Han army raised the racket again, looking for the next target, while the soldiers on both sides shot arrows and threw torches at the Wei army.In less than half an hour, Cao Jun damaged more than [-] ships.

Wen Dai ordered a quick retreat, and ordered Wen Xiu to mobilize the small boats in the village to come to meet him. Wenpin has been operating in Jiangxia for 20 years, and his soldiers are well-trained after all. A hundred warships are left to carry with Tai Shixiang, leaving nearly [-] ships All were replaced with small boats, and all large ships were decisively abandoned and all lit to delay the Han army's attack.

The unmanned Wei army's fireboats drifted down the wind to the Han army. The Han army was busy evading, and dozens of them were set on fire.Seeing that the fire was very strong, Tai Shixiang ordered to stop the attack, put down the racket to stop the fire boat, and wait for it to burn out and capsize.

Wen Xiu was overjoyed to see this, and without waiting for Wen Dai to issue an order, he rammed dozens of boats full of firewood into the Han army, and followed with hundreds of boats himself.The small boats of the Wei army were extremely flexible and shuttled back and forth. The Wei army kept firing arrows at the Han army.

Tai Shixiang ordered to retreat.Wen Xiu laughed loudly and stopped chasing Wen Dai: "Its navy is nothing more than that."

Wen Dai's face was full of dark clouds: "My big ship is lost, what if the Han army attacks again?"

"I originally said to break it with fire, but my brother didn't listen."

"This statement is wrong. Why didn't the Han army prepare for a fire attack? How could they succeed if they used this strategy from the beginning?"

Wen Dai was worried, and it was soon fulfilled.Tai Shixiang retreated, and countless warships came from the left and right waters, and Gan Ning and Sun Xing led the army to kill them.

"Brother, don't worry, you and I will each lead an army to meet the enemy."

Wen Xiu repeated his old trick, lighting dozens of small boats to lead the way, and followed behind.However, the reality was far from his imagination.The Han army did not avoid the fire boat at all. When the small boat approached, countless long poles with a length of two feet were protruded from the bow to push the fire boat away. Pass.

Long hooks are essential for warships. Seeing the opponent's fireboat approaching, soldiers only need to use the long hook to move the fireboat aside to avoid it.The two armies were in close combat, and the Wei army abandoned the big ship, so the Han army could not escape.

Facing the huge monster, Wenxiu wanted to cry but had no tears, so he hurriedly ordered to turn the bow of the boat and row back desperately.Gan Ning sneered, "Skills stop here."

Back then when the Jinfan bandits ran rampant across the river, these tricks were left over from Gan Ning's tricks.If Hao Zhao is unparalleled in both offense and defense on land, then Gan Ning is invincible on water.The right-hand army took the lead in attacking the flock, and the Han army didn't bother to shoot and kill the Wei soldiers. The giant ships rampaged, and countless small boats were overturned.

Wen Dai and Wenxiu had similar experiences. The water fortress was breached, and the two brothers and sisters escaped and went ashore, refusing to give up, in an attempt to prevent the landing of the Han army.

The Han ship's hard crossbow came out, and the two armies fired at each other. The Wei army was completely at a disadvantage, hiding behind the bunker and not daring to show its head.

As night fell, there were only 5000 Wei troops left, and the two armies lost nearly [-] in one day of fighting, and almost all the warships were lost.The battle situation was completely out of the expectation of Wen's father and son. When Cao Pi went south, Wenpin's illness improved. From the information obtained, Wenpin judged that Tai Shixiang was stationed in Fankou to deal with Jiangxia, and Sun Xing was stationed in Baqiu as Jiangling and Fankou. The main force of the Han army was to prevent Cao Pi from crossing the river, so he handed over Xiakou's Jiang defense to his eldest son Wen Dai and adopted son Wenxiu. He and his nephew Wen Hou stayed in Shiyang, the prefecture. people.

Tai Shixiang came to attack, but Wen Dai and Wenxiu had never heard of his name, they thought it could be deceived, they were eager to make contributions but neglected their scope, Tai Shixiang took advantage of the loophole, and they didn't expect that not only Sun Xing of Baqiu would suddenly kill him , Even Gan Ning came from Lujiang.The number of the three-way naval forces involved in the battle reached [-]. Judging from the lit torches, the total number is estimated to be at least [-] to [-], and there are thousands of warships.

With his heels, he could also think that the Han army did not want to stick to Jingnan, but turned from defense to offense, and brought their ideas to Jiangxia.It was a lie to say that they were not afraid, the two brothers looked at each other, even without today's defeat, it would be difficult for Xiakou to defend.

"Brother, the Han army is so powerful that it is difficult to resist, it is better to abandon Xiakou." Wen Xiu summoned up his courage and said.

Wen Dai couldn't help sighing, but he really couldn't think of a way to defeat the enemy, especially when he learned that the opponent's general was the famous Jinfan thief Gan Ning Gan Xingba.Wen Dai was also ruthless, and ordered to collect all the ships. The smaller ones were loaded with firewood and then let them float to the Han army, and the larger ones were loaded with huge stones to scuttle and block the waterway of the Han River, and then set fire to Luzhai and Shuizhai. , Withdrew overnight.

Gan Ning did not dare to launch a night battle to prevent the Wei army from attacking with fire. Wen Dai's broken jars caused a lot of trouble for the Han army.

It was not until noon on the fourth day of the lunar new year that the thick smoke cleared, and Sun Xing and Tai Shixiang were able to land in a small boat.Tai Shixiang built a simple landing point, and Sun Xing sent people to clean up the sunken ship to facilitate the passage of ships. It was not completed until the sixth day of the lunar new year.

(End of this chapter)